US Government Moves $300M Worth of Bitcoin Linked to Silk Road: On-Chain Data

Robinhood's crypto-trading subsidiary used to prevent customers from withdrawing the tokens they bought. Though Robinhood Crypto LLC abandoned that policy in 2022, on Wednesday its past practices earned a $3.9 million slap on the wrist from the state of California. The California Department of Justice settled its investigation into what Robinhood's chief lawyer called "historical

Dec 29, 2020 at 5:08 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 29, 2020 at 5:43 p.m. UTC(toeytoey2530/iStock/Getty Images Plus)Japanese Internet Giant Licensed to Issue First JPY-Pegged Stablecoin in New YorkThe New York Department of Financial Services has issued a trust charter to GMO-Z.com Trust Company, allowing it to “issue, administer and redeem” Japanese yen (JPY)- and U.S. dollar-pegged…

Michael J. Casey is the chairman of CoinDesk's advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT's Digital Currency Initiative. The following article originally appeared in CoinDesk Weekly, a custom-curated newsletter delivered every Sunday exclusively to our subscribers. The term "institutional crypto" sounds like an oxymoron. There's something quite ironic about financial institutions…

May 13, 2020 at 12:40 UTCEveryone knows the trope of the obnoxious bitcoin party guest. They corner you, drink in hand, and won’t let you escape until they’ve expounded exhaustively on bitcoin’s virtues. “Everyone has one annoying friend like that, and that’s me,” says Adriana Belotti, head of marketing at the technology consulting firm Prismatik…

For the past three years, one of the most important companies in crypto, ConsenSys, has been engaged in a slow and brutal battle whose outcome could determine its very survival. Following a series of Swiss court rulings, ConsenSys today held its first shareholder vote in two years, which may result in the company taking a…

TaxBit has begun pitching corporate America on specialized crypto tax prep software in a sign of the growing business behind bitcoin and other digital assets.The “Corporate Accounting Suite” already has its first customer, Aaron Jacob, a strategy executive at TaxBit told CoinDesk: BlockFi, the crypto lender and bitcoin exchange. He said banks, exchanges and investment…

Oct 22, 2020 at 19:18 UTCUpdated Oct 22, 2020 at 19:39 UTC(Shutterstock)Zack VoellNasdaq-listed bitcoin mining equipment manufacturer Ebang has set up a wholly owned subsidiary in Australia as part of its strategy to create a digital asset trading platform. The company has applied for but not yet received an Australian financial services license, per a…

Dubai and its sibling hub Abu Dhabi were rated tops in the regulatory structure, the most heavily weighted criterion at 35% of the total score. But the impact was blunted by the UAE’s bottom-quintile crypto adoption score, indicating that the larger population of the UAE is not as crypto-savvy as the residents in these two…

Its co-founder Ruja Ignatova, known as "the Cryptoqueen," hasn't been seen since October 2017. She was added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Top Ten Most Wanted list in 2022, with the agency offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to her arrest.